inhabited
Americanadjective
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Origin of inhabited
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The Jail Time Records studio is rudimentary - a small, sweaty recording booth attached to a room inhabited by a solitary computer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Like many Americans, she read “Little House in the Big Woods” when she was a child and immediately fell in love with Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls, her family, friends and the world they inhabited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The crocodile lived between 3.4 million and 3 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, during the same period and in the same region inhabited by Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
That was the origin of Buckland, a thickly inhabited strip between the river and the Old Forest, a sort of colony from the Shire.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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